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Sarasota Opera House
Sarasota Opera announced a five opera season for their 51st season in 2010-11. The fall offering will be Rossini’s version of the Cinderella story: La Cenerentola, which opens October 29. Sarasota’s...
Frederic Chopin left, and Robert Schumann right
In a single year two centuries ago — 1810 — two of the greatest composers to rise in the shadow of Beethoven were born within just months of each other. Frederic Chopin, son of Poland. Robert...
Photo Courtsey: St. Petersburg Opera Company
February is the month for remembering people you love and the St. Petersburg Opera is offering one way to do it! You can either send them a special printed message in the opera’s special Valentine'...
Photo Courtesy: Una Voce The Florida Men's Chorale
Something else of interest for classical music lovers is the upcoming USF and Palladium ENCORE Series programs on February 15 and 16. They feature Florida Orchestra Principal Clarinetist and USF...
Photo - Andrew Yee
NEW YORK, Jan. 22, 2010 -- The New York City-based Orpheus Chamber Orchestra announces the completion of six new "Brandenburg" concerti. Orpheus' three-year, six-part New Brandenburg commissioning...
The Ahn Treo
The Ahn Trio are sisters who are redefining the art and architecture of chamber music. Wherever the Ahn’s go, they share their innovative spirit and ever-evolving vision of music. The Trio is coming...
 

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When it comes to Prokofiev's music, pianist and Yale University professor Boris Berman is the go-to guy. Along with faculty and student musicians, Berman will present newly discovered pieces by the Soviet composer at New York's Zankel Hall on Tuesday...
Passion turns into lasting love, but ends with desperate tragedy, in Puccini's beloved La Boheme — maybe the greatest "date opera" in history — in a racy new production from the Washington National Opera....
Top Hat, from 1935, featured Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. But commentator Rob Kapilow says the real star of the movie is Irving Berlin's classic song, "Cheek to Cheek."...
The chamber ensemble earned two Grammy nominations for its 2009 album, which rearranged classic tunes by the jazz composer Dave Brubeck. On the eve of the Grammy Awards, the string quartet visited NPR to play songs like "Blue Rondo a la Turk."...
In his first, true operatic masterpiece, Handel creates an odd-ball comedy filled with scheming characters from ancient Rome. Read the story and hear excerpts from the site of the opera's premiere, in 1710....
 
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